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ABC to Air Gay-Rights Miniseries

As though there weren’t enough gay on TV already, ABC just hired gay screenwriter and LGBT activist Dustin Lance Black to write a new gay rights miniseries based on his life. The Hollywood Reporter announced that the new show is planned to be a “semi-autobiographical” drama “based on and told from Black’s background and experiences as a gay rights activist.”

Huffington Post picked up the story and reported that the miniseries “will be told from Black’s perspective about his life growing up gay in a Mormon household to becoming a leader in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights movement.”

Black, who was supposedly raised in a “strict Mormon” home, has made a career of writing gay material: he scripted Milk, a film about California’s first openly gay politician, and also J. Edgar, a biopic portraying the famous FBI director as a closeted homosexual. Additionally, he wrote the play “8,” about the downfall of Proposition 8 in California.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Black “has worked tirelessly for marriage equality and gay rights as his career in Hollywood continued to rise.” He is a founding board member of the gay marriage activist group American Foundation for Equal Rights which sponsored the legal team that opposed Proposition 8.

Series with gay themes appear to be a favorite with the ABC TV team. Also in development is a miniseries adaptation of a documentary about AIDS activism which follows a group of HIV-positive (mostly gay) men.

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